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Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 8:13 am
by smoking since 1879
tron » Fri Jun 19, 2015 12:58 pm wrote:there are machines running trades in the markets, algorithms are running the show already.


yes, so i heard. tho it's tempting to suggest they're playing out in a different financial universe now, one that budded off from base reality sometime last century

Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 9:49 am
by elfismiles
What an amazing development... androids dream of psychedelic memes

Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 10:07 pm
by Iamwhomiam
Do androids dream of power surges?

If they do, would those dreams be ecstatic or nightmares?

Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 11:17 pm
by Luther Blissett
Some of those skies that the androids dream of look remarkably like the visual hallucinations I received in the sky on my psylocybin trip. I'm actually puzzling through that.

Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 4:53 pm
by Elvis
Luther Blissett » Fri Jun 19, 2015 8:17 pm wrote:Some of those skies that the androids dream of look remarkably like the visual hallucinations I received in the sky on my psylocybin trip. I'm actually puzzling through that.


My first thoughts exactly.

Also, this came to mind: One night in the early 1970s a friend and I ingested a psychedelic and for awhile we watched TV. We found that we preferred a "blank" channel of static "snow"; images emerged from the noise: faces, scenes, objects. A curious thing was, we'd occasionally look at each other -- "Did you see THAT?" Of course we couldn't be sure that we were seeing the same things, but it sure seemed like it.

Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 5:04 pm
by DrEvil
^^That sounds pretty close to what Google did. The mind/AI starts looking for patterns in random noise and "forces" the noise to become something comprehensible and you see strange shit.
It's literally pattern-matching on acid. :)

Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 5:44 pm
by zangtang
yeah er hmmn - you sure you want to do that?

Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 9:06 pm
by DrEvil
Here's a Google gallery with lots more trippy images:
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipP ... 05bUdEMnhB

Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 10:08 pm
by Grizzly
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comm ... ners_onto/

Security:
Google was downloading audio listeners onto computers without consent, say Chromium users - "We don’t know and can’t know what this black box does. But we see reports that the microphone has been activated, and that Chromium considers audio capture permitted"

wtf?!

Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 3:53 am
by coffin_dodger
^^ not so much skynet, more like humans gathering the data of future currency.

Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 4:08 am
by FourthBase
Let's say for the sake of argument that it'd be possible to roll back advances in computer technology to a certain year from the past and freeze it there. What essential functions in our society actually depend on computer technology developed since, say, 1996, or 1986, or 1976? What wouldn't be possible anymore? Is there anything useful that couldn't still be transported, calculated, communicated, manufactured, purchased, etc.? Perhaps a few humane scientific discoveries would become impossible -- okay, if so, then stipulate that the top scientists in their field get access to a smattering of communal computers a la telescopes. Anything else?

Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 7:04 am
by 82_28
I work with software, intrinsic software in the telco industry that the last time it was updated was 1986. Apparently that's all about to change come fall and we're going to roll with something else. In a term, it is definitely rustic. But I agree with you and have long thought the same. There should be a point where you can "pause" what tech you want to run.

Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 7:22 am
by 82_28
I never use it any more but this still exists and works:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28web_browser%29

Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Tue Jun 23, 2015 9:32 am
by smoking since 1879
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Re: SkyNet Lives

PostPosted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 2:21 pm
by Iamwhomiam
I like that, smokey! So true!